Indian govt to make rear view sensors mandatory in all cars

NEW DELHI: The government yesterday has announced that soon it will make the rear view sensors or backup camera's mandatory on all new vehicles. The government aims to reduce increasing risk to small children and pedestrians from reversing or rolling back motor vehicles.

At the event, Abhay Damle , Joint Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) said “Although most cars come equipped with rear view mirrors which are adequate for detecting vehicles behind a car, but they are inadequate for detecting small children or objects close to the ground, which fall in the car's blind spot. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) will soon issue a notification to make rear view sensors mandatory in all vehicles.”

“As more than 50,000 fatal accidents in the country take place due to over speeding, government is also planning to make speed warning beep audio warning mandatory in vehicles on similar lines of seat belt wearing sign. At speed of 80 small beep sound warning will come and after the speed of 90 a continuous beep will alarm the speeding driver,” he added

The government has already made it compulsory for all two-wheelers, which account for the highest share of accidents in the country, to either have the anti-lock braking system (ABS) or the combined braking system (CBS) by April 2019. Apart from rear view sensors and speed warning, air bags will also become mandatory in all vehicles soon.

From October 1, 2018 all vehicles will have to go in for automated inspection and fitness certification test with hardly any human intervention, similarly driving license test will also become automated by that time. This will help in reducing fatal road accidents.

He further added, “In The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill , which will be introduced in the coming winter session of the parliament has made provisions for legal protection of Good Samaritans who help accident victims."

India will host, for the first time, the International Road Federation’s four day World Road Meeting (WRM 2017) from November 14-17, 2017.

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